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<blockquote data-quote="Greg Cameron" data-source="post: 16890" data-attributes="member: 42"><p>Re: File recovery software</p><p></p><p>There's only so much software can do if the problem is beyond directory errors. If there's a hard failure, you might be SOL. That said, I've recovered quite a few laptop hard drives, which is what the Mac Mini uses, by removing the drive, putting it onto a SATA or IDE PCB from an external FW or USB drive case, and then putting that into a soldering vise so I can adjust the angle of the drive. Failures are often related to motor bearing or head armature sticktion. Sometimes changing the angle of the drive will allow it to work well enough to recover data. Had a whole bunch of IBM/Hitachi drives out of Macbook Pros that did this a few years ago. Must have been a bad run. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As far as software recovery for Mac, there's a great product called <a href="http://www.subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=7" target="_blank">CopyCatX</a> that's a fault tolerant copy. By that I mean if you have a drive with hard errors, It won't stop copying and freeze up like a Finder level copy. It will keep trying to copy the bad spot for a bit until it times out. Then it will force the copy to move on to the next spot until it pulls off every possible bit of information. I've had good luck with that on getting back some pretty important stuff for clients. The combination of the that software with the physical removal and messing with drive positions have allowed me to get back data from quite a few drives that the folks at the Apple ''Genius Bar'' would have tossed into the trash without any recovery at all.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Greg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greg Cameron, post: 16890, member: 42"] Re: File recovery software There's only so much software can do if the problem is beyond directory errors. If there's a hard failure, you might be SOL. That said, I've recovered quite a few laptop hard drives, which is what the Mac Mini uses, by removing the drive, putting it onto a SATA or IDE PCB from an external FW or USB drive case, and then putting that into a soldering vise so I can adjust the angle of the drive. Failures are often related to motor bearing or head armature sticktion. Sometimes changing the angle of the drive will allow it to work well enough to recover data. Had a whole bunch of IBM/Hitachi drives out of Macbook Pros that did this a few years ago. Must have been a bad run. As far as software recovery for Mac, there's a great product called [url="www.subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=7"]CopyCatX[/url] that's a fault tolerant copy. By that I mean if you have a drive with hard errors, It won't stop copying and freeze up like a Finder level copy. It will keep trying to copy the bad spot for a bit until it times out. Then it will force the copy to move on to the next spot until it pulls off every possible bit of information. I've had good luck with that on getting back some pretty important stuff for clients. The combination of the that software with the physical removal and messing with drive positions have allowed me to get back data from quite a few drives that the folks at the Apple ''Genius Bar'' would have tossed into the trash without any recovery at all. Greg [/QUOTE]
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